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Maya Ying Lin , 1959-, American architect and sculptor, b. Athens, Ohio. From an artistically distinguished Chinese family that immigrated to the United States in the 1940s, Lin was catapulted to prominence while a Yale undergraduate when her magisterially simple design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. (completed 1982) won a national competition. She cemented her status as a major figure with her sculptural design for the Civil Rights Memorial, Montgomery, Alabama (1989), and a monument commemorating coeducation at Yale (1991). More recently she has also executed other kinds of architectural projects, e.g., several private houses, and the Museum of African Art (1993) and a huge clock at Pennsylvania Station (1994), both in New York City. In 2001 she began an ecology-based seven-part installation along the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon that commemorates the Lewis and Clark expedition . She also designs furniture, and her sculpture has been widely exhibited. Lin is known for her visual poetry and sensitive mingling of highly abstract form with meaning.
Bibliography: See her Boundaries (2000); Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (documentary film, 1995).
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